Pantin
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Seine-Saint-Denis | |
| Arrondissement | Bobigny | |
| Canton | Pantin (main town) | |
| Community association |
Métropole du Grand Paris and Est Ensemble |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 54 ' N , 2 ° 24' E | |
| height | 38-108 m | |
| surface | 5.01 km 2 | |
| Residents | 57,482 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 11,473 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 93500 | |
| INSEE code | 93055 | |
| Website | www.ville-pantin.fr | |
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Pantin [ pɑ̃ˈtɛ̃ ] is a French city with 57,482 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Île-de-France region northeast of Paris . The inhabitants are called Pantinois .
Like most of the northeastern suburbs of Paris, Pantin is also characterized by a number of high-rise slab complexes ( grands ensembles ) and a high proportion of immigrants, especially from Turkey, the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa.
traffic
Pantin is connected to the metro ( Métrolinie 5 between Place d'Italie and Bobigny ; stops: Hoche , Église de Pantin , Bobigny - Pantin - Raymond Queneau and Métrolinie 7 between Villejuif - Louis Aragon and Mairie d'Ivry and La Courneuve - May 8, 1945 ; stop: Aubervilliers - Pantin - Quatre Chemins ) and has a train station for local traffic on line E ( Transilien ).
Pantin is crossed by the Canal de l'Ourcq , a shipping canal that connects the Marne with the Seine , but is no longer of economic importance today.
economy
The city has a long industrial past (metalworking industry, textile industry ), as evidenced by the Moulins de Pantin ( Mills of Pantin - grain processing ) as a large industrial monument on the Canal de l'Ourcq . The Ateliers de maintenance TGV of the SNCF (maintenance of the high-speed trains of the SNCF) are a new important industrial settlement . Another important company are the Hermès workshops ( jewelry and leather fashion ).
politics
- Mayor : Bertrand Kern ( PS )
- After the municipal elections on March 23, 2014, the majority in the municipal council ( Conseil municipal ) consists of 24 representatives of the socialists , the radical left and other local groups (as of April 2016). The opposition is split into five representatives of the political left and four representatives of the political right .
Until the reorganization of the cantons in 2015, Pantin was divided into two cantons , the canton Pantin-Est (east) with 28,626 and the canton Pantin-Ouest (west) with 21,293 inhabitants. After the reform, only the canton of Pantin remains, to which, in addition to the city itself, the municipality of Le Pré-Saint-Gervais also belongs.
Churches
- In Pantin there is, among others, the Roman Catholic Church of Saint-Germain from the 17th century, which has been listed as a Monument historique since 1978 .
- Various Protestant churches, including one reformed and one reformed, are also present in the city.
Architectural monuments
See: List of Monuments Historiques in Pantin
Town twinning
Pantin's twin cities have been Meshchansky, a district of the Russian capital Moscow, since 1965, and the Italian city of Scandicci in Tuscany since 1969 .
sons and daughters of the town
- André Lagache (1885–1938), racing car driver
- Renée Falconetti (1892–1946), actress
- Albert Préjean (1894–1979), stage and film actor
- Pierre Desproges (1939–1988), humorist, author and television cabaret artist
- Patrick Lapeyre (* 1949), writer and teacher
- Valérie Karsenti (* 1968), actress
- Gabriel Obertan (* 1989), soccer player
- Mouhammadou Jaiteh (* 1994), professional basketball player
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-Saint-Denis. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-133-3 , pp. 255-263.
